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by gumballindie 1018 days ago
There are varying degrees of adhd, and indeed some require medication. My comment is more against having medication as a default solution. Obviously poorly phrased as it may have offended someone, and i apologise for that. Also thank you for your comment, it does help me better understand the topic.
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seba_dos1 1018 days ago
Judging from experiences of mine and my friends, it may be less about "varying degrees of ADHD" and more about "varying degrees of coping mechanisms one have managed to develop through their life".

If you don't need to spend significant amounts of energy on daily basis to cope with your ADHD (successfully or not), do you have ADHD at all?

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gumballindie 1018 days ago
> do you have ADHD at all?

Certainly an interesting question. I was told by two people that have it that I do, and by a psychologist that i clearly don't. But I do know that I have symptoms. So the question is rather spot on. Unless you "you don't need to spend significant amounts of energy" do you actually have it? Can it be that the symptoms are caused by something else?

And that brings me back to my initial poorly worded comment. Whereby my worry is that some may be too happy to prescribe medication where its no needed, as opposed to focusing on removing the factors that cause so many people to have symptoms of various traits that they don't actually enjoy. I am just worried that we rely too much on sedating folks just to numb them as a first resort simply because our work patterns and habbits are toxic to varying degrees overall.

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seba_dos1 1018 days ago
One important thing to note is that before you do your research, you have no idea how much the effort you need to spend compares to anyone else. For most of my life I was pretty sure that everyone's mind worked like mine.

Also, it's hard enough to get ADHD meds even if you genuinely need them to function that I'm not worried about people ending up overmedicated at all. I'd rather see meds becoming easier to obtain, since people who actually need them suffer from the obstacles meant to stop people who don't the most.

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